Small Businesses Need To Face Up To Big Security Problems

We’ve had millennia to learn behaviours in the physical world, yet as a new digitised world emerges we’re still playing catch-up from a cyber-perspective. In the physical world we are extremely security aware, we would never walk down a dark alley or let a stranger into our home for example, so why does a lack of oversight persist in a digital world?In particular, this attitude seems pervasive within the small business community. The recently launched Cyber Streetwise report highlights that around two-thirds of UK SMEs don’t believe their business is vulnerable to cyber-attack, and only a small minority say security is a priority for the coming year. With small firms accounting for 99.3 per cent of all private sector businesses in the UK, according to the Federation of Small Businesses, this is particularly concerning.